He continues to have romantic tension with Janine. Other than ghosts, he also has an interest in mold and started to grow cultures in Eduardo's bathtub when the two roomed together. He usually leaves the field work to the new members, opting to provide audio back-up from the fire house and information on their current adversary, but has joined them in action when he feels the crisis requires his presence. Before the first ghost escaped, Egon was teaching classes on the paranormal at Columbia University - four people taking his class was double the usual. He still lives in the fire house with Slimer, enabling the building to become the Ghostbusters headquarters when paranormal activity starts again. Finally and most notably was the two-part finale "Back in the Saddle", which featured the remaining original Ghostbusters returning and teaming up with their successors - with Dave Coulier (the second voice of Peter Venkman), Buster Jones (the second voice of Winston Zeddemore), and Frank Welker (the voice of Ray Stantz) all reprising their roles.Ĭharacters and cast Egon Spengler (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) The only original Ghostbuster to become a regular in this spin-off series, Egon takes on the role of mentor for the new team of Ghostbusters.
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The series would start to have more explicit tie-ins to Real as it went on - "Slimer's Sacrifice" referenced Egon entering the Containment Unit in an episode of Real and "Grundelesque" was a direct sequel to Real Ghostbusters episode "The Grundel", bringing back the eponymous villain and revealing Kylie lost a friend during its first attack. Maurice LaMarche was brought back to play Egon Spengler - though Frank Welker and Laura Summer did not return to play Slimer and Janine, respectively. This made the show one of the few direct sequels to a 1980s cartoon series - other franchises, such as Masters of the Universe and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, opted for series relaunches - and as such opted for a more realistic passage of time. As a result, the show was made as an explicit sequel to Real. The team that helmed Extreme Ghostbusters consisted of many producers and writers that had done work on The Real Ghostbusters, including Richard Raynis. The show ended up winning an award from the Los Angeles Commission on Disabilities for Garrett. who could kind of kick start the team", but was found to be quite bland until producer Jeff Klinesuggested putting him in a wheelchair Higgins stated this made Garrett more interesting to write, as he was now "one of these guys that takes what he is given and makes the best of it and really lives up to any potential that he has". Garrett was created as a balance to this, "an adrenaline junkie. The show's creators decided "what we wanted to do was really put together a team of misfits in a way, people that you would not necessarily associate with being superheroes on television": hence Eduardo as a slacker, Roland as a "square", and Kylie as moody and sarcastic. Showrunner Bob Higgins told Ability Magazine that the decision to create a new Ghostbusters was taken by the studio, which hoped to reinvigorate a lucrative franchise. Recurring themes throughout the series are the new team learning to work together despite their differences, Janine's largely unrequited affection for Egon, the love-hate relationship between Kylie and Eduardo that is never resolved, and the Ghostbusters' frequent clashes with authority figures who disbelieve their work. This is reflected by the use of a gritty, rock/ funk-inspired variation of Ray Parker, Jr.'s song " Ghostbusters" as the opening theme written by Jim Latham and performed by voice actor Jim Cummings. The series is styled as a supernatural comedy, following the trend set by its predecessor, but given an updated and darker feel.
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The series follows the adventures of this "Next Generation" of Ghostbusters tracking down and capturing ghosts all over New York and occasionally beyond the city. Filling the cast are Janine Melnitz, the Ghostbusters' previous secretary who returns to the job, and Slimer, a hungry ghost and general comic relief. These are Kylie Griffin, a goth girl genius and expert on the occult Eduardo Rivera, a cynical Latino slacker Garrett Miller, a young white paraplegic athlete who uses a wheelchair and Roland Jackson, a studious African-American machinery whiz.
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When ghosts start to reappear, Egon is forced to recruit his lone four students as the new Ghostbusters. Egon Spengler, who still lives in the firehouse to monitor the containment unit, further his studies and teach a class on the paranormal at a local university. Each member has gone their separate way, except for Dr. Set years after the end of The Real Ghostbusters, lack of supernatural activity has put the Ghostbusters out of business.